Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (14 comments)

Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern!

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 11:19 PM

I want to take a minute to welcome our summer intern to the Sheldon studios: Stephanie!

Steph's on a university-administered internship from today until the end of August, when school kicks back in.

When I was in college, one of the best opportunities I was ever given was a summer internship with the "San Diego Union-Tribune," the big metro paper in San Diego. Here I was, a college kid, and the Editorial Page editor, Bob Kittle, gave me prime newspaper real estate on Saturdays and Mondays to do my editorial cartoons. It was such an awesome opportunity... and even then I knew it was a huge kindness I wanted to pay forward when I got the chance.

So, in my Mattel years, I sponsored 3 or 4 summer interns through our "Design Center" to show them the world of toys... and so far with Sheldon I've been lucky enough to have one fantastic intern: Ignacio (...who, if I can take a minute to play the "proud poppa" role, is now working on CGI for James Cameron's new flick "Avatar". I'll expect premiere tickets, Iggy!).

Anyway, over the last few months I've been doing a few talks 'n lectures at local universities... and after one of them, a professor asked if I'd be willing to take on an intern for the summer. She forwarded on a glowing recommendation of Stephanie — and it just seemed like a great fit.

Stephanie started today, and over the summer will be helping out with as wide a variety of tasks as she'd like to take on: Like handling the strip transcriptions for the site, archiving some of the original art, helping to research some stuff for an NPR piece I'm working on, and if I can talk her into it...blogging here from time to time about how her internship is going. She'll also be helping out with the next Sheldon book, and possibly coming down to San Diego Comic-Con to check out the spectacle for a day (I told her it was "125,000 super huge nerds in a super huge convention center," and she still seemed enthusiastic. That earned her some points.)

You'll be hearing more from Stephanie personally in the blog about how the internship is going... but for now, feel free to post below and make her feel welcome!

[EDITED: Steph now has an "@sheldoncomics.com" e-mail! Drop her a line here to say hi!]

Shalaina
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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 12:49 AM (#42852)

Hi and welcome!
So are you the person who has to drive down to the bait shop twice a week to get buckets of worms for Arthur? ;) Seriously though, I'm glad to hear Dave now has someone to work on the transcriptions. I hope that means the transcription system will get an overhaul. I think a bunch of folks including myself were willing to help with transcriptions, but the interface was a complete and utter pain in the last months.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy your internship - I think many Sheldon fans will be quite envious! :)


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Great! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 12:59 AM (#42853)

This was reason enough for me to register on the site even:) Congratulations, Stephanie, on an awesome opportunity. I hope you have a good time and learn a lot!
Dave, it's so cool that you do this.


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Doc
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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 06:19 AM (#42856)

Welcome to the show, Steph - Hope you have as much fun as we do :)


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 06:46 AM (#42857)

Welcome, Stephanie. You'll do great if you just remember how Dave likes his coffee: frequent. :)

You definitely have to see San Diego. It's like one of Dave's nerdiest strips come to life times 1,000. (Wait, is that material for an XKCD strip?)


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 07:14 AM (#42858)

Welcome, Stephanie!

Interning can be thankless. I suspect that won't be that case with Dave. However, you get out of an Internship what you put into it. Hard work and listening to your mentor now will serve you well later.

I too am a little envious.

Welcome to the deep end of the nerd pool.


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 07:50 AM (#42860)

Salutations, Mlle Stephanie! J'espère que vous appréciez votre sejour. Permettez à un magicien humble de vous accueillir.


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Welcome to the Funhouse! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:02 AM (#42862)

Hi Steph, as a person that just left an internship with a CRAZY woman (think "The Devil Wears Prada" combined with the actual Devil and you might be close), I offer you some timeless advice.

1. Enjoy yourself. If you can't have fun, you can't learn.
2. Make mistakes- and learn from them. I learned more from those than I ever did from her.
3. Use your mentor's knowledge and experience- but don't forget yourself! You are the wonderfully awesome newbie- and don't forget that!

You, of course, are much luckier than I was- your mentor is the picture of fabulousness. Have a good one- I can't wait to meet you through your own blogs! Have a great summer!


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 03:32 PM (#42869)

Hello Stephanie!
Just felt compelled to send warm greetings from England. We're all a big family here as I'm sure you know, with Dave being the... Mum? Not sure where I'm going with this... anyway, have a great time! I'm sure you will. Look forward to hearing a different point of view from the world of Dave.
I'd personally love to see some photos in the blog of the man at work, in his studio or enjoying an early morning cup-a-joe whilst staring out the window. Whatever it is that the real man gets up to!

Lee.


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 05:21 PM (#42870)

Welcome to Stephanie.

And just for the record: Not EVERYONE at San D Comic-Con is a "super huge nerd"! Some of us go to gawk at the super-nerds! Also, some of us are going as support for our BFF who has a thing for nerdy guys. Yeah, so if any hot single 28-35 guys are looking for a date with a really cute brilliant funny girl, lemme know. I'm her Yenta. :)


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 23, 2008 - 08:49 PM (#42873)

Stephanie,
Where is that coffee I ordered an hour ago?
Where is my dry cleaning?
Have you washed the talking duck yet?
Translate what the lizard is saying for me.
Get used to hearing those phrases this summer.


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 08:07 AM (#42876)

Hi and welcome!! Hope you have a great time!! But then...how could you not?!


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 09:34 PM (#42894)

Welcome!

And yeah I'll be one of those 125,000 super huge nerds you'll see in San Diego.


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 12:25 PM (#42925)

Hello Sheldonistas/os and thank you so much for the wonderful welcome I've received. Yes my summer days already look pretty bright by having a fabulous internship and a SD trip planned which I am looking forward to. No I do not plan to gawk at the "super nerds" but instead to fully embrace them and my experience in SD and working with Sheldon comics. Hopefully a little blog will be up soon which I am very nervous about (so if it's horrible just smile and nod). Feel free to contact me at steph@sheldoncomics.com and everyone enjoy the wonderful summer weather (that's a command if you live in so cal).


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Re: Welcome Our Sheldon Summer Intern! (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 06:02 PM (#42950)

so will sheldon be getting an intern as well for sheldonsoft? One that *amazingly* looks a lot like a certain girl named stephanie...?


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